University  of  California  •  Berkeley 

DAVID  E.  BELCH  COLLECTION  OF 
H.L  MENCKEN 

Gift  of  Valerie  D.  Belch 


THE  VMART 


George  Jean  Nathan  I  Editors 
H.  L.  Mencken  \ 


Suggestions  to 
Our  Visitors 


Editorial  Chambers: 

25  West  45th  Street 

New  York 


1.  The  editorial  chambers  are  open  daily, 
except    Saturdays,    Sundays   and   Bank   Holi- 
days, from   10.30  A.  M.  to   11.15  A.  M. 

2.  Carriage  calls  at  11.15  A.  M.  precisely. 

3.  The  Editors  sincerely  trust  that  guests 
will  abstain  from  offering  fees  or  gratuities 
to  their  servants. 

4.  Visitors  expecting  telephone  calls  while 
in    audience    will   kindly    notify   the    Portier 
before  passing  into  the  consulting  rooms. 

5.  Dogs    accompanying    visitors    must    be 
left  at  the  garde-robe  in  charge  of  the  Por- 
tier. 

6.  Visitors  are  kindly  requested  to  refrain 
from  expectorating  out   of  the   windows. 

7.  The  Editors  regret  that  it  will  be  im- 
possible for  them,  under  any  circumstances, 
to  engage  in  conversations  by  telephone. 

8.  The   Editors   assume   no   responsibility 
for  hats,   overcoats,  walking  sticks  or  hand 
luggage  not  checked  with  the  Portier. 

9.  Solicitors    for    illicit    wine    merchants 
are    received    only   on   Thursdays,    from    12 
o'clock  noon  until  4.30  P.  M. 

10.  Interpreters  speaking  all  modern  Eu- 
ropean  languages   are   in    daily   attendance, 
and  at  the  disposal  of  visitors,  without  fee. 

11.  Officers    of    the    military    and    naval 
forces  of  the  United  States,  in  full  uniform, 
will    be     received     without    presenting    the 
usual    letters   of   introduction. 


12.  The    House    Surgeon   is*  forbidden  to 
accept    fees    for    the    treatment    of    injuries 
received   on  the   premises. 

13.  Smoking  is   permitted. 

14.  Visitors  whose  boots  are  not  equipped 
with    rubber    heels    are    requested    to    avoid 
stepping  from  the  rugs  to  the  parquetry. 

15.  A  woman  Secretary  is  in  attendance 
at    all    interviews    between   the    Editors,    or 
either  of  them,  and  lady  authors.     Hence  it 
will    be    unnecessary    for    such    visitors    to 
provide  themselves   with   either   duennas   or 
police    whistles. 

16.  Choose    your    emergency    exit    when 
you   come   in;   don't   wait   until  the    firemen 
arrive. 

17.  Visiting  English   authors  are   always 
welcome,  but  in  view  of  the  severe  demands 
upon  the  time  of  the  Editors,  they  are  com- 
pelled  to    limit   the    number   received   to    50 
head  a  week. 

18.  The  objects  of  art  on  display  in  the 
editorial  galleries   are  not  for  sale. 

19.  The  Editors  regret  that  they  will  be 
unable  to  receive  visitors  who  present  them- 
selves  in   a   visibly  inebriated  condition. 

20.  Cuspidors  are  provided  for  the  con- 
venience    of     our     Southern     and     Western 
friends. 


21.  The   Editors   beg   to   make   it   known 
that  they   find   it  impossible   to    accept  invi- 
tations to  public  dinners,  memorial  services 
or    other    functions    at    which    speeches    are 
made,  or  at  which  persons  are  present  who 
ever  make  speeches  elsewhere. 

22.  The  Editors  assume  that  visitors  who 
have  had  the  honor  of  interviews  with  them 
in    the    editorial    chambers    will    not    subse- 
quently embarrass  them  in  public  places  by 
pointing  them  out  with   walking  sticks. 

23.  Photographs    of   the    Editors    are    on 
sale  at  the  Portiers  desk. 

24.  Members  of  the  hierarchy  and  other 
rev.  clergy  are  received  only  on  Thursdays, 
from  12  o'clock  noon  to  4.30  P.  M. 

25.  The  Editors  cannot  undertake  to  ac- 
knowledge the  receipt  of  flowers,  cigars,  au- 
tographed   books,    picture    postcards,    signed 
photographs,  loving  cups  or  other  gratuities. 
All  such  objects  are  sent  at  once  to  the  free 
wards  of  the  public  hospitals. 

26.  Positively  no  cheques  cashed. 


